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Quote by: ParaTed2k  Humans are natural predators. Every species equipped to digest meat is a natural predator. Not all animals are taken with guns... just those bigger than ourselves. All predators use their cunning, agility, senses and abilities to hunt. The ONLY difference is, you somehow think it's wrong for us to kill animals but it's ok for animals to kill animals. |
Its wrong because we are the only species that can reason it out and realize we don't need to hunt to live. Cougars and wolves can't.
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Quote by: The Bacon Guy Then it's an even more efficient way of keeping the numbers down. Besides, the deer which the hunter chooses to shoot depends entirely on the hunter.
And when the problem being addressed is one of overpopulation, fewer deer being killed is not necessarily a good thing.
Obviously it is working, since we're not overrun by the animals which have so far been subject to organised culls.
I never denied that reintroduction of a predator is a viable way of dealing with population problems. My argument is that hunting is also a viable way of doing so and, as such, there is no reason to ban it.
The deer aren't currently overpopulated. They will become overpopulated if humans don't continue to intervene in some way. |
Most hunters go for the biggest bucks with the nicest antlers, its well known.
The natural predators will keep the deer in check, aslong as we don't keep killing the predators and ruining their habitat. It may not be instant, but it will eventually work, if people are patient.
Then please tell me how people all across the USA are complaining about overpopulations of deer? The hunting culls haven't worked that well, and they wont in the long run since eventually people will become more civilized and wont hunt. We need to think of a long term solution.
BTW, what do you consider overpopulation?